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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple preps a major interface revamp for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, loosely based on visionOS, with consistent design, simpler navigation, more — Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company's history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone …

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X: @heaney555, @dylanmcd8, @markgurman, @rjonesy, and @markgurman

Forums: r/tech, r/MacOS, r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Bluesky adds support for three-minute videos, up from the previous one-minute limit, and a new “Chat Requests” feature to screen messages from unknown users — Bluesky will let you accept or reject messages from people you might not know.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, TechCrunch, and Mashable

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Bloomberg:

Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10 — Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he claimed was orchestrated by a …

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Myles Udland / Yahoo Finance:

Tech stocks led a broad sell-off; the Nasdaq fell 4%, its sharpest one-day decline since Sept. 2022, with NVDA down 5%, AAPL down 5%, META down 4%, GOOG down 4% — The “Magnificent Seven” stocks were at the center of another sell-off hitting markets Monday.

Reuters:

Sources: Apple and Meta are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching the EU's DMA, which allows fines of up to 10% of companies' global annual sales — EU antitrust regulators are expected to hand out modest fines to Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) for allegedly breaching …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, AppleInsider, Seeking Alpha, and Wall Street Pit

X: @timsweeneyepic and @timsweeneyepic. Forums: MacRumors Forums

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:

Asana announces CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring, and reports Q4 sales rose 10% YoY to $188.3M, in line with estimates; ASAN drops 25%+ after hours — Dustin Moskovitz, the CEO of Asana and one of the original founders of Facebook, is retire from the software company he started in 2008.

More: TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, Asana, Inc., SiliconANGLE, and Yahoo Finance

Bluesky: @wittywebhandle. X: @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, and @joshuaogundu

Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:

iPad Air M3 review: powerful M3 chip, improved keyboard, better screen, performance, and multitasking than the base iPad, but no Face ID and can get expensive — The new iPad Air remains a great tablet, albeit one that's extremely similar to the last few models.

Jez Corden / Windows Central:

Sources: Microsoft is working on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, slated for later in 2025, and successors to the Xbox Series X|S, tentatively slated for 2027 — Microsoft's first full foray into PC gaming handhelds begins with a partner device set to launch later this year, with its own Xbox Series X|

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X: @dmc_ryan, @tomwarren, @wario64, and @tomwarren

Forums: r/pcgaming, r/xcloud, r/XboxSeriesXlS, r/hardware, r/Games, r/xbox, r/gaming, and Slashdot

Echo Wang / Reuters:

CoreWeave signs a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI and will issue shares worth $350M to OpenAI through a private placement at the time of CoreWeave's IPO — CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion …

More: TechCrunch, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Information, Cryptopolitan, CoreWeave, CNBC, and Wall Street Pit

X: @ccm_brett, @firstadopter, @hedgeyetech, and @jeetsidhu_

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts — Sony's advanced technology group has created an AI-powered version of Aloy from PlayStation's Horizon games.

More: PC Gamer, GameSpot, and Dexerto

Bluesky: @jrosenbaum.com.au, @tomwarren.co.uk, and @ben.vampirefriday.org. X: @toadsanime

Forums: r/Games, r/PS5, and Slashdot

New York Times:

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed — An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.

More: Fierce Biotech, Lila Sciences, Endpoints News, General Catalyst, and FinSMEs

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Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:

Oracle reports Q3 revenue grew 6% YoY to $14.13B, vs. $14.39B est., and cloud revenue rose 23% YoY to $6.2B — Oracle (ORCL.N) missed Wall Street expectations for third-quarter revenue on Monday, weighed down by softer enterprise spending on its cloud infrastructure services, and strong competition from larger players.

More: SiliconANGLE, The Information, Oracle, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, CNBC, Proactive, and Constellation Research

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:

Sources: DOD barred press photographers from briefings on the Iran conflict after they published photos of Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering”

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:

Google's AI Futures Fund invests $1M into Animaj, an AI animation studio focused on making high-quality videos for children on YouTube

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:

A look at Newpress, a production company and community platform for “creator journalists”, which helps them build shows on platforms including YouTube

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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:

Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health files for a US IPO, and reports revenue of $390M in 2024, up from $293M in 2023, and a net loss of $11.9M

More: PitchBook, Hinge Health, Inc., CNBC, Reuters, Axios, and Tech Startups

X: @dvasishtha, @b_madden4, @dvasishtha, and @katie_roof

New York Times:

Eric Schmidt becomes CEO of Relativity Space; sources: he made a significant investment in the rocket-building startup to take a controlling stake

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Voice of 3D Printing, and SpaceNews

X: @thetimellis, @mikeisaac, and @pitdesi

Kevin Collier / NBC News:

Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations

More: The Register, Consumer Reports, Computerworld, ZDNET, and TechCrunch

Bluesky: @craignewmark. X: @rakeshsfnyc. Forums: r/privacy, r/technology, and r/technews

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:

SCOTUS refuses to hear BMC's appeal and revive a $1.6B award against IBM, which was accused by BMC of poaching a client in violation of a licensing agreement

More: Reuters

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told associates he isn't in a hurry to get investment, including from government entities, fearing outside influence

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, and ZDNET. Forums: Hacker News

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised an $80M Series C at an $830M valuation, up from $350M in 2023

More: Nirvana Insurance, FreightWaves, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, San Francisco Business Times, FinSMEs, and FinTech Global

NBC News:

Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017

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X: @royprice, @benjamingoggin, @ediyork, @andymstone, @andymstone, @benjamingoggin, @andymstone, and @benjamingoggin

Forums: r/law and r/technology

Crystal Tse / Bloomberg:

Real estate platform Rocket plans to buy Redfin, a home search service and adtech brokerage, for $1.75B, or $12.50/share, closing as soon as Q2; RKT drops 15%+

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Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal:

Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release

Forums: Slashdot

Steve Yegge / @steve_yegge:

Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support

X: @steve_yegge, @bindureddy, @steve_yegge, @t_blom, @realgenekim, @alliekmiller, @wangzjeff, @meekaale, @joedevon, @t_blom, @melkeydev, @jlongster, @realgenekim, and @tayl0rwtf. Forums: Hacker News

Financial Times:

Stripe, Revolut, and other banks and fintechs rush to launch stablecoins; there are ~$210B in stablecoins issued globally, including Tether printing $142B

More: PitchBook, Cryptopolitan, PYMNTS.com, and CoinGape

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Bloomberg:

A look at China's heavy-handed and sometimes intrusive approach to crack down on telecom and online scams, including intercepting calls and messages

ProPublica:

How neo-Nazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram Collective and a network of chats and channels, targeted a teen in Slovakia, and groomed him to kill

More: Werd I/O. Bluesky: @simple-truth. Mastodon: @vruz@mstdn.social and @ProPublica@newsie.social

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn says it built FoxBrain, an in-house reasoning LLM, trained in four weeks with support from Nvidia via its Taiwan-based supercomputer and consulting

More: 首頁, Barron's Online, Taipei Times, South China Morning Post, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Neowin, PhoneArena, eeNews Europe, TipRanks Financial, and Focus Taiwan. Bluesky: @aussiepetec

Reuters:

President Trump says “we're dealing with four different groups” for the sale of TikTok; Trump signed an EO on January 20 to delay the TikTok ban by 75 days

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Some early Manus users say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience

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